EU Views: Georg Diez
Name: Georg Diez
Nationality: Germany
Occupation(s): Author and columnist for Der Spiegel; Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
Connection to Europe: Diez is a Berlin-based reporter and columnist covering politics and culture for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. He is a co-founder of the experimental journalism platform 60pages, an international network of writers, artists, thinkers and scientists. He is studying how a new journalistic platforms could enable worldwide conversations around specific topics—a digital salon offering an alternative to how knowledge is traditionally shared by legacy media.
Date of interview: February 15, 2017
In this episode, Olya Yordanyan talks to German journalist Georg Diez about emerging forms of democracy and his own work to develop platforms in order to promote democratic discourse and to connect citizens around the globe to the promise of the future, something lost in light of recent institutional failures. Diez emphasizes the importance of citizen involvement, and even effort, for democracies to function.